Thursday, March 6, 2008

Robotic snake moves by pushing off obstacles

A new creature slithering out of the Norwegian University ofScience and Technology is noticeably different than most. As you cansee above, there's a distinct lack of treads, tracks or wheels on Aiko,as it actually pushes off foreign objects it encounters in order tocreep forward. Additionally, researchers have created a "virtualdouble" of the critter in order to help guide the development of theactual robot.Article Link (Gizmodo)